#FIFAWWC: Les Milieux de Terrain - CANWNT🇨🇦

MIDFIELDERS

In the last week of May, Kenneth Heiner-Møoller announced the list of summoned for the World Cup in France 2019. Canada will have these four midfielders during the tournament and the coach knows that the team has players who are polyfunctional, but nominally Canada announced to these players.

Jessie Fleming (21 years old, born in London, Ontario)

The juvenile was selected as best player U-20 in three consecutive years, being the last in 2017, debuted with 15 years in December 2013, and was the second youngest player in history to debut with the Canadian team. Since then, she has participated in 65 matches, starting in 53 of them, has scored eight goals and has assisted in four others. Fleming plays at the university level, at UCLA in the United States, in which she has been recognized as a great footballer on several occasions by different bodies of university football. She was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 and won the ticket to France via the CONCACAF World Championship in 2018.

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Julia Grosso (18 years old, born in Vancouver, British Columbia)

Grosso plays at the university level in the United States, defends the colors of the University of Texas, debuted at 16 in November 2017, a match she never forgets despite the result. She has a total of 16 matches with Canada and has started in six of them, has played several tournaments with the youth teams, U-20 and U-17 of Canada, was recognized by the FIFA viewers as a talented player, with great presence and good marking in one on ones. In Texas, she has won several recognitions as a young player in her conference. Julia was part of the group that reached the ticket in the CONCACAF World Championship in 2018.

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Desiree Scott (31 years old, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Scott plays in the Utah Royals FC of the NWSL in the United States. She is going to her third world cup--experienced midfielder who has known how to develop her game in Kansas City and Notts County (both clubs ceased to exist) during his career. She debuted with the national team in February 2010 with 22 years, has played 143 games since then and has been a starter in 108 of them. She has not officially scored, but has collaborated with two assists. Desiree played from 2012 to 2016 a total of 68 matches in a row, is medalist of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Rio 2016, but was not part of the team that reached the ticket to France in the 2018 CONCACAF World Championship due to an injury.

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Sophie Schmidt (30 years old, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Current NWSL Houston Dash player and Nike ambassador to Canada, Sophie debuted with the national team in 2005 at just 16, has a total of 184 games with Canada, started 159 times, and has 19 goals and 20 assists. Schmidt is the second player with the most matches that will attend France--which will be her fourth FIFA World Cup--in her record with the team we find the Cyprus and Algarve Cup, medals of Pan American Games and Olympic Games, CONCACAF Championship and a series of individual awards. Schmidt is characterized by being a leader in the field that helps the younger ones, tactically she is a very complete player, her vision of the game caught the attention of all the FIFA viewers in the different tournaments in which she has represented Canada, and was part of the team that got the ticket to France.